Brown: Viaduct tunnel cost amendment to be revisited

When Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown stopped by seattlepi.com Wednesday for an interview we asked her about the controversial, stick-it-to-Seattle taxpayers Alaskan Way Viaduct amendment.

That proviso from House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, requires city tax payers to cover cost overruns on the tunnel project. Brown, a Spokane Democrat, said her caucus opposed that idea. She said she thought it would be reconsidered by a future Legislature or the courts.

“That’s an issue I believe will be revisited, that specific piece of it … It’s not at all clear to me how you would do that (make Seattle taxpayers pay for overruns).”